Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-11-11
MY RESURRECTION PRANK,
BY GEORGE II. TAYLOR.

{ state OF mind, occas oned partly by the
oppressive weather and partly by my
professional prospects. or rather, want
Oh prospects. Having sown my wild
oats and obtained a medical diploma.
had settled down in the little country
town OF W--to work up practice
IL was very hard 10 leave the act yties
OF the city and he prank I'll | fe of n
h student for the quiet of rural COM
I, mum ~ and the sedateness requs site for
impress nc tho rural mind with the be-
!, hcf ldat ali medical skill was locked up
Z IN The pari cnlar Knowledge box car
! fied on my shoulders. Bat the little
I Town OF N--.or that particular
section of it in which had opened an
oiifce. See mod TO my friends. and. there
Tore, to me. the ON, spot on earth not
already prc-rmpted by member of
\ The medical profession. SO there / was,
ava lng yer tication of the adage
4 That "all ia ngS come to hose who
wat"
had come very near having case
n that morning. A strange young wo-
man had come TO the leading hotel of
the town the day befor e, had been taken
SICK during the night. and. As there
seemed To he nobody TO guarantee the
payment of her bill in case she died,
my profess onal competitors appeared
willing that 1 should have the Job.
n But the fateS were agaisl me, for as
/ .l...l ~
.he young woman was dead aud her
BODY had been turned over to the ten
der mercies of the town coroner and
undertaken. Even then the cotcrie of
good and true" citizens picked up
around the bar-room door had viewed
the body" and retired to meet at some
lndehn te period and declare that 1.-The
said person, to the jury unknown,
come TO he r death by some means to
the jury unknown" the pauper coffin
Twas in the room and the pauper hearse
stood ct the door | had been tile
lafory in responding to the unex-
4pected and very early morning call
and l had lost the case. So turned
ION tie stairway and leisurely made my
fway back TO my Office.
The business of working up prac-
t'ce' in medicn will at times depress
the most sangune temperament, and |
have said. having one OF those depressed
moods when Boraparte Laguee, the
town undertaker's man of-all- work.
dropped in wearing a very gruesoms
lace and helped himself TO a chair con
6dent ally near me.
''Sck, BonyP" i asked; for the young
\ man. though looking the very cture
OF phys cal vigor, seemed at loss how
TO open conversation.
/ k"Kaw!' he answered, in zone Of
stong disgust ''only sick O tn
buryin bus ness, and o. that measly
small boss O. mine. Do you know what
iGs gone an done?"
-No.'
f'Wen, you know the old woman
Mers that's been a dyin' so long of a
dkease that none o you medicine fell
ows could make out?"
'Yes, died last ght. believer"
K-'Yes, an l let that worthless son o .
ors have coffin on tick am the boss
n.y. he'll take the price of it out of
Id wages. Now, 1t wasn't moth
rs better than cheap pauper coffin,
o. amt going to stand the loss if nv
Heb boss can't an he's going TO have
Mat coffin back if have to dig for it.
gm going over to the cemetery tonight
foI3t, an / didn't know but YOU wan
4 sed a good 'disseet and would give me
. hand She'd make stunnin' dis
6ect, cause nobody knows what she
y He'd of. I'm a little nervous about
LIQUID help me get the coffin I'd help
II you get the body"
Here was Glance TO chase away
melancholy, and hadn't had lark.
gmce | left college. If | was found
hut it would destroy all hopes of prac-
ice in W. to be sure, but that didn't
lmean much, considering how slight
fabric those hopes were built on any
way. and it would furnish me with
!. reasonable excuse TO my friends for
'lquitting the apparently barren field
/ they had selected for me- Bes des
|. was there no hope of unearthing a
i yreat medical secret that might hand
,ne's name down to posterityP
Added to this there would be great
'xtsfaction in helping Bony to thrust
hot cheap coffin under the nose of the
IIrcs spirited Worms. the undertaken,
lnd daring him to risk his own repu-
,s1iDn by exposing Bony to the law.
ony's revenge might be at the ex-
ne of his situation, but It would be
cff and it might have the contrary
feet of compelling Worms to keep
10 man and treat him decently in or
or to keep his own meanness out of